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Adam Chappell, Director, IP ＆ Security, Enterprise product solutions, Interoute
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For a long time, I’ve wanted to post an article about the options available for those seeking to establish a high-availability, geographically diverse web presence.

Interoute has just been named Company of the Year Award Telecoms Provider in IaaS Europe, 2014 by the analyst firm Frost & Sullivan. It’s the eighth award Interoute VDC has received since we launched the service at the end of 2012, but by far the hardest to win. Why? Because there’s no way to enter these awards. No entry form. No time pressured judges. And no sponsors to please.

The biggest barrier to progress in businesses today is the inefficiency of IT. Many enterprises are losing time and money because valuable content is separated by a sprawling mass of incompatible legacy systems that require individual expertise and resources. This technological chaos is the equivalent of keeping money in your mattress. Enter the cloud. And, the cloud offered CIOs the option to consolidate resources and drive greater mobility.

Interoute has been selected to be part of the new G-Cloud framework, G-Cloud 4.
G-Cloud provides the UK public sector with a simple and efficient way to purchase ICT services, including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and cloud professional services.
Our award winning Interoute Virtual Data Centre (VDC) has formed part of the G-Cloud’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) supplier list since it launched in 2012. Now in its fourth framework iteration, G-Cloud 4 provides the public sector with a list of pre-approved suppliers offering the best and most cost effective cloud services.

Here at Interoute we're not shy about telling everyone that we think Interoute Virtual Data Centre is the best cloud service out there. So, we are of course very glad to see others rating our cloud highly too!

With Lionel Messi and his Barcelona colleagues away on International duty, 8,500 people were in the city at the 6th European VMware event, VMworld Europe 2013. The show kicked off with VMware CEO, Pat Gelsinger’s keynote speech that concentrated on 3 key points;

The rapid and real change in how IT services are crafted and developed through the arrival of cloud computing and its myriad of associated “revolutions”, “breakthroughs” and “epiphanies” can create a dilemma for anyone t

This post follows on from my initial post on the VDC API.
A brief recap; we have exposed the RESTful, jClouds compliant, VDC Application Programming Interface so that you can interface with the service at the software level. It enables you to bypass the GUI (which uses the same API) and integrate the service with your existing provisioning or management tools. The first post detailed how to create Virtual Appliances and create Virtual Machine instances from templates.